Like Bobby Fix Sr. winning a statewide scratch tournament with a three-game total that included a near-perfect game of 299. Or Liberty Lanes becoming one of the first alleys to notice that people like music playing while they bowl.

Now all but the memories are being boxed or sold. Soon, Ideal Snacks will demolish the building to make way for another expansion. Nothing will be left of the family business that, for decades, thrilled generations of bowlers.

"I just hate to see all of this go," said Bobby Sr., who relocated his family from Long Island after buying Liberty Lanes in 1970. "What can I tell you; it's the times."

The "times" once boasted a thriving resort-hotel business employing thousands of workers. It was those employees who filled part of their off days bowling. Liberty Lanes once had as many as 80 leagues.

"All those people are gone," Fix said.

Property taxes rose and interest in bowling declined. In November 2011, with their property facing foreclosure, the family sold to Ideal Snacks.

The agreement with company President Zeke Alenick allowed them to stay open for another two years. They lasted less than one; in August, they decided to close.

"We could never have made it without Ideal Snacks," Honey Fix said. "Zeke is a great guy."

On Wednesday, a space heater roared as the Fix family cleaned, packed and decided. A half-mile away, Kiamesha Lanes co-owner A.C. Patel led a crew of workers turning the old Eckert's Drug Store in Liberty Square Mall into the new "Liberty Lanes," a 12-lane alley.

"I'm planning on opening next Friday," Patel said.

At the old bowling alley, the benches have been sold, as have most of the pin-setting machines and some bowling balls and shoes. Ideal claimed some kitchen equipment, including freezers.

Next Saturday and Sunday, the public can come between noon and 5 p.m. to make offers on the remainders, including tables of bags and shoes, lockers and racks of balls. They can even buy pieces of the lanes — part maple and part pine — but will have to do their own cutting, Bobby Sr. said.

Going home: a box of tumblers Bobby Sr.'s daughter made to commemorate his scratch-tournament victory. And Bobby Jr. found a yellowed copy of an old Times Herald-Record column by sports writer Al DeSantis.

The column gave a roundup of area bowling results, leading with a story about a local named Dwayne Cabrera bowling a 300 game at Kiamesha Lanes.

"I'm going to get it to Dwayne," Bobby Jr. said. "We saved it all this time. Why throw it out."